If it's not too late, I'd like to also add:
Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Steve C. McConnell
No matter what else we do, we know we're going to be writing code for this
puppy. IMHO I was writing pretty solid code already, but I'm seeing ways to
impro
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Before I forget: (I read a *lot*)
> A Course In General Linguistics, F. de Saussure. tr. Roy Harris
> (If you don't know what relation this has to Perl, what are you doing
> here?)
>
> The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike.
>
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> Alice in Wonderland is, of course, the quintessential CS text. It never
> hurts to keep in mind that everything you know could well be wrong. :)
Another one I'd like to suggest, which I suspect (hope?) most everyone
has already read:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galax
At 12:56 PM 10/9/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> >The Mythical Man-Month
> >Fred Brooks
>
>That reminds me: I highly recommended "Anti-Patterns":
> www.antipatterns.com/briefing
Nifty. I think it's another book to add to the pile. (I might finish the
pile
Before I forget: (I read a *lot*)
A Course In General Linguistics, F. de Saussure. tr. Roy Harris
(If you don't know what relation this has to Perl, what are you doing
here?)
The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike.
(You mean you haven't read it yet?)
Knots, R.D.
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>The Mythical Man-Month
>Fred Brooks
That reminds me: I highly recommended "Anti-Patterns":
www.antipatterns.com/briefing
>Understanding Comics
>Scott McCloud
>
>Tao Te Ching
>Lao Tzu (translation by Ursula LeGuin)
>
>Alice in Wonderl
At 04:00 PM 10/9/00 +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>On 5 Oct 2000, at 15:06, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > I should actually RFC it--we could use a "recommended reading" RFC.
>
>Have you had any further thoughts on this? Do you think you'll find
>the tuits necessary?
Well, here's a quick list, sans ISBN
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:14:49PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Well, if you want us to all chip in with ideas, here's what I've been reading
> recently:
Oh, missed a bunch of web-based things:
Report on Interpreted Programming Languages
www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/cs5535/Fall-1996/project
"Generic Programming and the STL",
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201309564
"Designing Concurrent, Distributed, and Real-Time Applications with UML"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201657937
"An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms"
http://www.amazon.com/ex
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:00:12PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> On 5 Oct 2000, at 15:06, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > I should actually RFC it--we could use a "recommended reading" RFC.
>
> Have you had any further thoughts on this? Do you think you'll find
> the tuits necessary?
Well, if you wa
On 5 Oct 2000, at 15:06, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I should actually RFC it--we could use a "recommended reading" RFC.
Have you had any further thoughts on this? Do you think you'll find
the tuits necessary?
Cheers,
Philip
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